JOB SUMMARY
When Applied Industrial Technologies, one of the country's largest
distributors of power transmission components, replacements bearings
and related specialty items, decided to build a new corporate headquarters,
the company wanted to combine its current five-building operation
into one consolidated operation. The main goal was to portray a
timeless quality with an image of a future-driven, technological-oriented
company.
Together with the firm of GSI Architects, contractor
Turner Construction Company and glazing contractor Architectural
Product Sales Company, Dan Rogers and Mike Rubner of Vistawall were
able to design a wall system which supports the overall architectural
design of a dynamic structure that represents a building of the
future.
Dimensional structural requirements were met with
the CW-600 and W-250 wall systems accommodating 1-inch vision and
1/4-inch spandrel glass. The CW-600 allowed the glass to be set
from the interior. Vertical structural glazing and special bull
nosed face caps were also aesthetic elements of the curtain wall
system.
A sweeping fin implies motion and enhances the futuristic
design hinged around the two main office buildings. This fin moved
in an elliptical pattern along the segmented wall required Vistawall
to use complex engineering methods to layout and fabricate the curtain
wall. Vistawall was also able to provide anchor supports for these
fins within the curtain wall design, without the need for additional
and costly structural framing.
Project manager for Vistawall was Steve Entrekin.
